Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Intel officially moved on to what they call " Process- Architecture-Optimization (PAO) " in early 2016. So, what has changed my mind?

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. Service businesses grew at scale, and the reaction to scale is hierarchy, process, and command & control.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Maximiliano Firtman. Maximiliano Firtman.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

Second, the supply chain bedlam triggered by the Ever Given’s beaching exposed the asymmetric downside risk endemic to the systemic fragility - that is, the woefully inadequate robustness - in tightly-coupled supply chains. The systemic fragility was as plain as day. This was a fragile system operating on borrowed time.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 28, 2007

The business processes that need to be defined, modeled and automated to fulfill that market opportunity will not be established at the front end of a project. A recent quote from Shari Ballard, EVP of Retail Channel with Best Buy, highlights this: 'Look at why big companies die. They implode on themselves.

Government 40

Government Retail Best Practices Technology 40